KENTUCKY IS AWARDED TWO CONSERVATION INNOVATION GRANTS FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Updated 07/13/2009

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KENTUCKY IS AWARDED TWO CONSERVATION INNOVATION GRANTS FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

(Lexington, Ky.), July 13, 2009— Earlier today, USDA Secretary Vilsack announced the recipients of Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG). There are two awardees in Kentucky, the University of Kentucky Research Foundation and Mountain Association for Community Economic Development, Inc. (MACED).

    Both projects in Kentucky address natural resource concerns of soil, water, and forest health.

    The University of Kentucky Research Foundation received $94,123 for a project that will demonstrate and encourage adoption of a new soil moisture-based automatic pulse irrigation system and MACED received $500,000 to demonstrate the role carbon revenue can play as market-based economic incentives that result in sustainable forest practice at scale in private lands.

    Grantees provide matching funds and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) administers the program and provides technical oversight for each project.

    More information about CIG is available at www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/cig. A listing and summaries of approved fiscal year 2009 projects can be found at www.nrcs.usda.gov.

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